In the case above, Bruce had gut-shot the buck.
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Gut-shoot
Synonyms for "gut-shoot"
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Of all the fine men I've labored to save, it had to be you who survives being gut-shot.
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I put one of them down—gut-shot him—and they pulled out again.
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If the animal has been gut-shot, however, then you will have a problem.
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